Stochastic Petri nets (SPNs) have proven to be a powerful and enduring graphically-oriented framework for modelling and performance analysis of complex systems. This tutorial focu...
In the analysis of a manufacturing system, the analyst is often interested in the change in mean cycle time as a function of different throughput (start rate) levels. Since the va...
Rachel T. Johnson, Sonia E. Leach, John W. Fowler,...
The problem of segmenting color video sequences is addressed. Boundary motion and occlusion relations expressed by labeling rules are argued to be of key importance for segmentati...
Albert Akhriev, Alexander Bonch-Osmolovsky, Alexan...
This report describes a new open-domain answer retrieval system developed at the University of Edinburgh and gives results for the TREC-12 question answering track. Phrasal answer...
Jochen L. Leidner, Johan Bos, Tiphaine Dalmas, Jam...
Traditionally, companies aiming to achieve competition among suppliers have used sealed bidding procedures in their sourcing processes. The advances in information technology and i...